Ter­minol­ogy /​ Jar­gon (meta)

Anvil Problems

Stop talk­ing about p(doom)

“notkil­lev­ery­oneism” sounds dumb

[META] ‘Ra­tional’ vs ‘Op­ti­mized’

Avoid­ing Jar­gon Confusion

Com­mon vs Ex­pert Jar­gon

“Zero Sum” is a mis­nomer.

Ra­tion­al­ity Cardinality

“If and Only If” Should Be Spel­led “Ifeff”

Against nam­ing things, and so on

Leav­ing Orbit

Ex­pres­sive Vocabulary

Avoid in­fla­tion­ary use of terms

Things I Learned From Work­ing With A Mar­ket­ing Advisor

Ap­pendix: Jar­gon Dictionary

Please (re)ex­plain your per­sonal jargon

[Question] What is the “Less Wrong” ap­proved acronym for 1984-risk?

Public-fac­ing Cen­sor­ship Is Safety Theater, Caus­ing Rep­u­ta­tional Da­m­age

LessWrong Di­as­pora Jar­gon Survey

“Slow” take­off is a ter­rible term for “maybe even faster take­off, ac­tu­ally”

[Question] What’s a bet­ter term now that “AGI” is too vague?

What does “au­to­di­dact” mean?

Shit Ra­tion­al­ists Say?

[Question] Ter­minol­ogy: <some­thing>-ware for ML?

AIS ter­minol­ogy pro­posal: stan­dard­ize terms for prob­a­bil­ity ranges

[Question] is there a big dic­tio­nary some­where with all your jar­gon and acronyms and what­not?

On Shifgrethor

Sub­scripts for Probabilities

Son of Shit Ra­tion­al­ists Say

[Question] Op­tion Space Nomenclature

[Question] Term/​Cat­e­gory for AI with Neu­tral Im­pact?

Pro­posal: we should start refer­ring to the risk from un­al­igned AI as a type of *ac­ci­dent risk*

The Pink Sparkly Ball Thing (Use unique, non-ob­vi­ous terms for nu­anced con­cepts)

“Mem­branes” is bet­ter ter­minol­ogy than “bound­aries” alone

[Question] What is some un­nec­es­sar­ily ob­scure jar­gon that peo­ple here tend to use?

Cat­a­lyst books

Why ra­tio­nal­ists should care (more) about free software

Wanted: No­ta­tion for credal resilience

Do meta-memes and meta-an­timemes ex­ist? e.g. ‘The map is not the ter­ri­tory’ is also a map